Shellye Archambeau is a Silicon Valley leader, who is one of High Tech’s first female African American CEOs. She has been featured frequently in Forbes and New York Times and Business Insider and has been an executive at IBM, CEO of blockbuster.com, and then the turnaround CEO for a Silicon Valley startup, which is now…
Category: Career hacks
The problems and challenges you’re facing today are your gifts. Because these are opportunities in disguise. Most people do not open that gift. They don’t want to open that gift. And that’s because the wrapper on that gift isn’t very nice. It’s unpleasant, and it’s uncomfortable. It’s something that people stay away from. And so,…
We all know that one of the keys to career growth is to continuously learn new skills. It is a career superpower. People that can’t learn can’t survive in the modern workplace. So how can we learn new skills quickly? Is there a hack? Learning through audio or visual Many people learn through audio. For…
You may have felt this a lot of times, like; this person has the perfect job; this person lives in the perfect neighborhood. And it feels like that person is so lucky. But that is not the case. Because luck is all about being prepared, and it’ll be looking for opportunities and taking advantage of…
How does technology make its way to the market, and what’s your role in that market? I like to view this as the first mile and the second mile. The first mile is all about the creation of the product and the creation of the technology. It’s about making sure you are prioritizing the right…
As we make progress in our careers, a good way to think about the journey is to see if we are camping or climbing. There are times when we are in the middle of a transformation, we are learning new skills, we are putting in the hard work, and we are climbing towards our next…
The average job performance review process creates more negativity than a positive work environment. There are multiple reasons for that and mismatch in expectations is one of them. But you are here to be a CareerTiger, not just another ordinary clock-punching employee. So here four steps to take your job performance to the next level. Plus…
Commute sucks: it eats up energy, focus and most importantly, time which leaves us with less opportunity to be productive and successful at work. Commute also comes with variables that add to the drama. Traffic snarls. Train delays. Bad weather. Ugh. via GIPHY Time: our most valuable and non-renewable resource If you work from home,…